Apparatus for disposing of garbage from buildings



(No Model.)

I. C. G OODRIDGE. APPARATUS FOR DISPOSING 0]? GARBAGE FROM BUILDINGS.

No. 606,483 Patentd June 28, 189 8,

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APPARATUS FOR DlSPOSlNG OF GARBAGE FROM BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,483, dated June 28, 1898.

Application filed July 18,1896. Serial No. 599,729. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRA O. Goonnincn, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in theDisposal of Garbage from Buildings, of whichthe following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of the invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in the disposal of garbage from buildings, whereby the accumulating garbage is readily passed from the kitchen to a suitableremovable receptacle in a casing in or on the outside of the wall of the building, so as to facilitate emptying the contents of the receptacle into a cart orother means fortransporting the garbage to a dump, oreinatory, or other place.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims. 7 r

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improve ment. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional side elevations of modified forms of the improvement.

The improved device, as illustrated in Figs, 1, 2, and is provided with a receiver A, located within the kitchen or like room of a building to permit the user of the device to readily empty the accumulated garbage into the said receiver, the latter being normally closed by a lid B, which, however, is raised when emptying the garbage into the receiver.

The receiver A connects directly with the.

upper end of a pipe O,extending downwardly through the floor D of the kitchen of the from the casing E and its contents dumped into a cart or other means for transporting the garbage to the dump, crematory, or other place. When the receptacle F is emptied of its contents, it is placed back into the casing E, the door E of whichis then closed. A vent-pipe E extends from the upper end of the casing E through the wall of the building to the roof, so as to carry off any odors that may arise from the accumulating contained in the receptacle F.-

Now it will be seen that by the arrangement described the garbage is at once regarbage moved from the kitchen and accumulates in a receptacle inclosed within a casing, so that dogs,flies, &c., have no access to the garbage, and the latter is also not liable to decompose, as it is not exposed to the rays oft-he sun, to rain, and the like As illustrated in Fig. 4, the pipe 0 is dispensed with and in its steadare used conveyer-buckets G, held on an endless chain H, mounted on pulleys and disposed vertically in a channel B formed within the wall of the building, the said chain H extending from the ground-floor to the top of the building. Access is had to the several buckets G by doors D formed in the wall of said channel B The buckets G are adapted to empty into a receptacle F, removably laced in a casing E ,similar to the casing E. By the arrangement described the garbage from several floors in the building can be readily disposed of in the manner described.

In order to apply this device on buildings already in existence, I provide the arrangement shown in Fig. 5, in which the receiver A discharges into a pipe 0, extending transversely through the wall of the building to the outside thereof to connect with a downwardly-extending pipe Oflopening intoa casing E attached to the outside of the building and adapted to contain the garbage-receiving receptacle F A plunger I is held in the pipe 0'' and is provided with a plunger-rod 1, extending through the inner closed end of the pipe within the kitchen to permit the operator to push the garbage delivered by the receiver A into the inner end of the pipe 0 forwardly until the garbage finally drops through the pipe OR -down into the receptacle F The plunger when in outermost position serves as a stopper for the pipe 0' to prevent odors rising in the pipe 0 from passing into the pipe 0 and by way of receiver A into the kitchen.

The pipe C (shown in Fig. 2) may be arranged in the wall of the building to reach all the floors, and in this case areceiver Ais connected with the pipe at each floor to permit of disposing, of all the garbage in the building through one pipe into one receptacle.

Now it will be seen that by the arrange ment described it is not necessary for the user to step outside to dispose of any garbage, as all refuse matter is emptied into a conveyer, which carries the matter to a receptacle, access to which is had from the outside of the building.

Having thus fully described iny invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. A device of the class described, cornprising a receiver within a room of the building, a casing below the floor of the said room, a pipe leading from the receiver to the easing, and aplungerin'said pipe, substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a receiver within a room of the building and provided with a lid, a casing outside of the building and below the floor of the room in which the receiver is located, said casing being provided with a door, a pipe leading from the receiver out through the Wall of the building and then down into the casing, and a plunger in the portion of the pipe leading through the side of the building, substantially as described.

' IRA C. GOODRIDGE.

\Vitnesses:

J. R. STEWART, H. B. ALLEN. 

